Barbecue Bento

Is there anything better in a bento than leftover barbecued meat??! Well probably there is. But.

Jan's bento is big today because these days just before classes start are some of his busiest. I thought he might enjoy a feast including leftover bratwurst and steak, stir-fried sesame noodles, fresh strawberries and some Asian sweets of indeterminate nature.

Sriracha in the HK container! I love this stuff. My older son eats steamed jasmine rice with sriracha on it every night for dinner in his little messy dorm room. While this sounds a little heart-breaking, he says it is perfect. He has always been one to glom onto something he likes and stick with it through thick and thin. "The bullheaded one."

Strawberries!!

Is there anything better? Good for you, no calories or fat, taste like heaven. I got these at a roadside stand yesterday and they had such a fragrance. The guy selling them seemed depressed; I guess they were so ripe they could hardly last out the day, and it must be sad to stand there and watch your strawberries go over to the dark side, while people drive by talking on their cell phones and eating fast food out of styrofoam cartons...

Anyway I froze a bunch of these, gave some to my neighbor, and had a little strawberry festival all to myself.

Jan's bento on Wednesday looked like this:



Brown basmati rice, pork stir fry, tamagoyaki, turkey sausage rounds with a sauce container of Sriracha to dip them in, a few grape tomatoes, dark sweet cherries, a babybel cheese, a few peanut butter pretzels, and a vanilla mousse chocolate wafer.

Kind of too much protein, but for Jan's diabetes the rice has to be kept to a minimum - rice really makes his blood sugar go sky high. It's too bad because so much good & cute bento stuff is rice based. Kind of too much sweets too! This wasn't a very well planned lunch. Optimal for him is protein and vegetables, a small bit of carbs, that kind of thing.